Christmas Eve

We had a great holiday season (even though I'm blogging it rather late). Christmas Eve, Jon got off work around 2 pm and came home and we all headed to my folks. Before we left, Alex took the last opportunity possible to write a wish list to Santa. He was so cute - insisting on writing the whole thing himself. I told him how to spell each word, and he wrote the entire letter himself. We dropped the letter off at Macy's, as the line for Santa was like 2 1/2 hours long (I should've known not to wait until then - but I thought it could go either way with either being super busy or everyone having their own parties and it not being too crowded). We took one last pre-Christmas picture of our tree before we left.

We had a delicious turkey and ham dinner at my folks, and then enjoyed opening some presents. Sherrine gave Alex a much loved Buzz jacket (Buzz is his absolute favorite).

Aidan was so cute - and as you can see - he quite enjoyed the night. He had several presents to open (see the green elephant on the left side), but he enjoyed the goings-on and people watching as much as anything.
Nana and Papa gave Alex a light saber (or "life saver" as he likes to call it - we're still working on the pronunciation). You can see he was thrilled.

Alex enjoyed playing with his cousin, Isaac.

Jon got his perfunctory work shirt. He is hard to buy for because he doesn't give us many ideas, but he always needs shirts.

Nana and Papa were nice to host all of us and definitely spoiled the kids. We had such a great time.

We arrived home just in time to go to bed and wait for Santa to come.